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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Schermann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Scherer.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a barber, shearer, or the like, from scheren ‘to shear’, ‘to clip or cut’ + man ‘man’.

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